Katherine Mendelsohn
@katherinemend.bsky.social
Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader.
She/her.
She/her.
Pinned
www.institut-francais.org.uk
Extracts of two of my recent play-translations into English are included in this @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social book:
LUNE by Pamela Ghislain & LEVIATHAN by Guillaume Poix (2024 Festival d’Avignon production conceived & directed by Lorraine de Sagazan)
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LUNE by Pamela Ghislain & LEVIATHAN by Guillaume Poix (2024 Festival d’Avignon production conceived & directed by Lorraine de Sagazan)
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Trump thinks he was in Iowa yesterday. He has no idea where he is.
January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Trump thinks he was in Iowa yesterday. He has no idea where he is.
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RFK Jr: "Mr President, we're in the process of implementing your great American healthcare bill." (There is no healthcare bill.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
RFK Jr: "Mr President, we're in the process of implementing your great American healthcare bill." (There is no healthcare bill.)
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Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?
January 29, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?
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One person? one?? ahahahahahaha
January 29, 2026 at 7:05 AM
One person? one?? ahahahahahaha
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Omar: I instinctively tried to, like, punch him…, I was raised with three brothers who were older than me. You learn that maybe taking the first punch when somebody is bigger than you yields you better results.
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Omar: I instinctively tried to, like, punch him…, I was raised with three brothers who were older than me. You learn that maybe taking the first punch when somebody is bigger than you yields you better results.
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"The idea that trans inclusion at the ponds is somehow imposed against the wishes of users simply does not survive contact with reality. Londoners have looked at the evidence... and overwhelmingly said: this works, this is fair, and this reflects our values."
celord.com/2026/01/29/h...
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January 29, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"The idea that trans inclusion at the ponds is somehow imposed against the wishes of users simply does not survive contact with reality. Londoners have looked at the evidence... and overwhelmingly said: this works, this is fair, and this reflects our values."
celord.com/2026/01/29/h...
celord.com/2026/01/29/h...
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Lady Gaga condemns ICE during her show:
"My heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families all over America who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE... We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability."
"My heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families all over America who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE... We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability."
January 29, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Lady Gaga condemns ICE during her show:
"My heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families all over America who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE... We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability."
"My heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families all over America who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE... We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability."
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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AI has norhing to do w intelligence. It stands for All-In, complete capture, the panopticon, colonial dream of total ownership of everything converted to data, the forced singularity in which we cannot function without the machine.
Every time you don't use it, you resist totalitarianism.
Every time you don't use it, you resist totalitarianism.
Have we seen an industry fight this hard to make society and government accommodate it since the birth of the auto industry?
Free AI training to be offered to every adult in the UK
January 29, 2026 at 1:20 PM
AI has norhing to do w intelligence. It stands for All-In, complete capture, the panopticon, colonial dream of total ownership of everything converted to data, the forced singularity in which we cannot function without the machine.
Every time you don't use it, you resist totalitarianism.
Every time you don't use it, you resist totalitarianism.
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Breaking News: Wynton Marsalis will step down next year as managing director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, 40 years after he founded it.
Wynton Marsalis, Founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, to Step Down
After 40 years with the organization, the trumpeter and impresario will end his role as managing and artistic director in July 2027.
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January 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Breaking News: Wynton Marsalis will step down next year as managing director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, 40 years after he founded it.
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Kneel before Zod!
Homan: "The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation ... as we see that cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen"
January 29, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Kneel before Zod!
“What I saw there demanded a lot of me:
the difference between just sitting there and leaning forward with excitement, not even knowing why.”
www.thestage.co.uk/my-favourite...
the difference between just sitting there and leaning forward with excitement, not even knowing why.”
www.thestage.co.uk/my-favourite...
My Favourite Play: Lolita Chakrabarti
Actor and writer Lolita Chakrabarti selects Robert Lepage's Needles and Opium as her favourite production, which was a formative experience for her
www.thestage.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 11:32 AM
“What I saw there demanded a lot of me:
the difference between just sitting there and leaning forward with excitement, not even knowing why.”
www.thestage.co.uk/my-favourite...
the difference between just sitting there and leaning forward with excitement, not even knowing why.”
www.thestage.co.uk/my-favourite...
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I'm just looking to buy some hankies (reasons) and OMG what the FUCK has happened to WORDS?
January 28, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I'm just looking to buy some hankies (reasons) and OMG what the FUCK has happened to WORDS?
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Queues at Scottish cinemas to see the Melania movie
a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background
ALT: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background
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January 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Queues at Scottish cinemas to see the Melania movie
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Noone could claim I'm not invested in fiction (chairing Booker this year). But non-fiction is getting a bit short-changed, I think, in this UK "year of reading". For some, it's always been non fiction (glimpses of other worlds, other ways of thinking) that started the reading vibe.
January 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Noone could claim I'm not invested in fiction (chairing Booker this year). But non-fiction is getting a bit short-changed, I think, in this UK "year of reading". For some, it's always been non fiction (glimpses of other worlds, other ways of thinking) that started the reading vibe.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Airlines will not show this to prevent walkouts.
January 27, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Airlines will not show this to prevent walkouts.
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I’ve just written a story on this very theme, will air on Radio4 in April.
(Yes, mainly putting this here so it’s clear I didn’t plagiarise…!)
(Yes, mainly putting this here so it’s clear I didn’t plagiarise…!)
“War. War. War. Someone’s dog wearing a birthday hat. War. War. War. Kylie Jenner’s dress at the Golden Globes. ...This is how memory is organised online: not as lived experience,but as a flicker of unrelated images flattened into the same scroll...Everything adjacent. Everything equally temporary.”
Ukrainian playwright Olga Braga on how theatre can help us pay attention
January 27, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I’ve just written a story on this very theme, will air on Radio4 in April.
(Yes, mainly putting this here so it’s clear I didn’t plagiarise…!)
(Yes, mainly putting this here so it’s clear I didn’t plagiarise…!)
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“War. War. War. Someone’s dog wearing a birthday hat. War. War. War. Kylie Jenner’s dress at the Golden Globes. ...This is how memory is organised online: not as lived experience,but as a flicker of unrelated images flattened into the same scroll...Everything adjacent. Everything equally temporary.”
Ukrainian playwright Olga Braga on how theatre can help us pay attention
Is the antidote to doomscrolling... a dark room and a live story?
Ukrainian playwright Olga Braga on how theatre can help us pay attention
exeuntmagazine.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:56 PM
“War. War. War. Someone’s dog wearing a birthday hat. War. War. War. Kylie Jenner’s dress at the Golden Globes. ...This is how memory is organised online: not as lived experience,but as a flicker of unrelated images flattened into the same scroll...Everything adjacent. Everything equally temporary.”
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Philip Glass has withdrawn his symphony world premiere from the Kennedy Center:
"Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony."
"Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony."
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Philip Glass has withdrawn his symphony world premiere from the Kennedy Center:
"Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony."
"Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony."
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Q: Do you believe Kristi Noem has committed impeachable acts?
Rep. Khanna: Absolutely, she needs to go. She's presided over agents who are killing American citizens, who are overreaching in violating the Bill of Rights.
Rep. Khanna: Absolutely, she needs to go. She's presided over agents who are killing American citizens, who are overreaching in violating the Bill of Rights.
January 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Q: Do you believe Kristi Noem has committed impeachable acts?
Rep. Khanna: Absolutely, she needs to go. She's presided over agents who are killing American citizens, who are overreaching in violating the Bill of Rights.
Rep. Khanna: Absolutely, she needs to go. She's presided over agents who are killing American citizens, who are overreaching in violating the Bill of Rights.
“War. War. War. Someone’s dog wearing a birthday hat. War. War. War. Kylie Jenner’s dress at the Golden Globes. ...This is how memory is organised online: not as lived experience,but as a flicker of unrelated images flattened into the same scroll...Everything adjacent. Everything equally temporary.”
Ukrainian playwright Olga Braga on how theatre can help us pay attention
Is the antidote to doomscrolling... a dark room and a live story?
Ukrainian playwright Olga Braga on how theatre can help us pay attention
exeuntmagazine.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:56 PM
“War. War. War. Someone’s dog wearing a birthday hat. War. War. War. Kylie Jenner’s dress at the Golden Globes. ...This is how memory is organised online: not as lived experience,but as a flicker of unrelated images flattened into the same scroll...Everything adjacent. Everything equally temporary.”
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I'm gobsmacked. Who the fuck is going to go see this on Parnell St in Dublin?? Two or three screenings a day.
This can't be a normal commercial decision surely? It's distributed by Amazon, are they paying the cinemas to show it or something?
This can't be a normal commercial decision surely? It's distributed by Amazon, are they paying the cinemas to show it or something?
January 27, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I'm gobsmacked. Who the fuck is going to go see this on Parnell St in Dublin?? Two or three screenings a day.
This can't be a normal commercial decision surely? It's distributed by Amazon, are they paying the cinemas to show it or something?
This can't be a normal commercial decision surely? It's distributed by Amazon, are they paying the cinemas to show it or something?